The Woman Who Launched Google Wallet Has A New Jobhttp://www.businessinsider.com/the-woman-who-launched-google-wallet-has-a-new-job-2012-1/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:32:46 -0400Matt Rosoffhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f179902eab8ea044a00002dGarbanzoWed, 18 Jan 2012 23:16:02 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f179902eab8ea044a00002d
Stephanie was brought over from eBay with great fanfare to relauch payments and commerce. Included in her portfolio were books, games, music, and video, in addition to Checkout and Wallet. Lots of high-profile egghead hires (Ivy geeks, McK refugees, steals from other Valley companies). And iIn typical Google fashion, everything has been nearly stillborn (see "If you have too many priorities, you have no priorities" cliche. If anything will help these products, it will be Android, which is outside her control.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f179429ecad04af51000002Goog Employee modelportfolio2003Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:55:21 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f179429ecad04af51000002
if astroturfing was made illegal under SOPA I might even support the whole bill. Hold my nose and all.
Isn't there a SEC rule against this?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f174f136bb3f78072000029modelportfolio2003Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:00:35 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f174f136bb3f78072000029
Not at all. Sprint just announced they are including NFC on their upcoming Galaxy Nexus launch and on the LG Viper. More NFC phones from Sprint on the way. I saw the following comments from Sprint management:
"The carrier now also plans to include NFC in all its LTE smartphones, except for low-end devices, Trevor Van Norman, Sprint's director of consumer product marketing, told Light Reading at the CES show last week. Sprint will receive a cut from Google for coupons or Google Offers redeemed via Google Wallet, he added."
Sony recently announced they are launching two NFC enabled Xperia phones shortly. Henry, lots of the Android device makers are incorporating NFC chips in their phones.
The problem regarding phones being NFC enabled will not be the problem soon. It will be the number of NFC enabled readers at retail outlets. Will the retailers upgrade to them or will another party have to subsidize the cost to the retailer to get it going? That is still an open question in my mind.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f173d4969bedd524000000bHenry BlodgetWed, 18 Jan 2012 16:44:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4f173d4969bedd524000000b
Sounds like they're already pulling the plug on Wallet.